Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 23 > Article 6 - Public Corporations and Associations

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• credit corporation: means a corporation to which the secretary of state has issued a certificate of election under section 8 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 23-6-4-1
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• lending agreement: means an agreement between a credit corporation and a lending institution, under which the lending institution agrees to lend funds to the credit corporation in accordance with section 13 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 23-6-4-2
• lending institution: means a bank or trust company, industrial loan and investment company, credit union, savings bank, bank of discount and deposit, small loan company, savings association, insurance company or related corporation, partnership, limited liability company, foundation, pension fund, or other institution engaged primarily in lending or investing funds. See Indiana Code 23-6-4-3
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• loan limit: means , for any member, the maximum amount permitted to be outstanding at any one (1) time on loans made by that member to a credit corporation, as determined by the credit corporation's board of directors. See Indiana Code 23-6-4-4
• member: means a lending institution authorized to do business in Indiana that enters into a lending agreement with, and undertakes to make member loans to, a credit corporation organized or operated under this chapter. See Indiana Code 23-6-4-5
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes goods, chattels, evidences of debt, and things in action. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• small business concern: means any business entity that qualifies as a small business concern under the applicable section of the federal Aid to Small Business Act (Indiana Code 23-6-4-7
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Verified: when applied to pleadings, means supported by oath or affirmation in writing. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5